Pricing Technology Solution Architect- Manager

PwC Acceleration Center India; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,200,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

PwC Acceleration Center India is seeking a Senior Solution Architect to own Pricefx configuration, develop Groovy-based pricing logic, and manage complex pricing workflows. You will lead a small team, coordinate with data/integration groups, and drive CI/CD pipelines, governance, and performance tuning. Strong Java/Groovy skills and pricing domain knowledge required.

This on-site Bengaluru role offers opportunities to shape pricing governance and analytics in a global delivery environment.

Qualifications

• 8-12 years of experience
• Hands-on Pricefx implementation experience with configuration ownership
• Strong proficiency in Groovy scripting
• Hands-on familiarity with at least one CI/CD platform (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Azure Pipelines, or CircleCI) and pipeline-as-code practices
• Solid understanding of pricing concepts: price lists, discount governance, segmentation, approval workflows, rebates/incentives
• Experience leading cross-functional teams (functional, data/integration, QA, release)
• Bachelor's degree minimum (Engineering/CS/IT preferred)

Responsibilities

• Lead a Pricefx configuration workstream or small team (3-8 members)
• Own technical design decisions and manage complex configuration dependencies
• Translate functional requirements into technical design and delivery backlog
• Drive sprint planning, defect triage, SIT/UAT readiness, release governance, and hypercare support
• Manage technical risks, performance issues, and integration dependencies
• Work with integration/data teams on ERP/CRM/CPQ interfaces, ensuring correct mappings, validations, and reconciliation controls
• Oversee data quality checks for price lists, customer/product hierarchies, agreements, and rebate datasets
• Validate end-to-end data integrity across inbound and outbound interfaces
• Produce and review configuration design documents, Groovy logic notes, deployment guides, and runbooks
• Conduct code/configuration reviews and enforce secure engineering practices
• Establish quality gates and review standards across the configuration team
• Mentor Senior Associates and Associates; enforce coding standards and delivery discipline
• Act as primary technical escalation point for configuration and integration challenges
• Serve as trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders across sales, finance, revenue management, and IT
• Lead executive-level discussions on Pricefx solutions, process redesign, and product enablement
• Ensure strong relationships through transparent communication, delivery excellence, and proactive issue resolution

Skills

Groovy scripting

Pricing concepts

Leadership / mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Pricing governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/CS/IT

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI/CD

Azure Pipelines

CircleCI

Job description

Pricefx configuration & technical ownership

• Lead and review Pricefx configuration using Groovy scripting to implement complex pricing logic, workflows, validations, calculations, and UI behaviors.
• Own solution design for price lists, discount structures, approval flows, rebate agreements, and pricing governance constructs.
• Own and maintain CI pipelines for Pricefx configuration artifacts (scripts/logic, packageable configuration, integration templates) and for any related integration services.
• Design scalable, high-performance calculation logic (header/line-level execution, validity management, performance tuning).
• Establish reusable components, accelerators, and configuration standards to improve maintainability and delivery speed.

AI-enabled pricing & analytics enablement

• Shape and embed AI-assisted pricing use cases such as:
• intelligent deal guidance within defined approval guardrails
• anomaly detection on price changes and margin leakage
• segmentation-driven discounting and elasticity signals
• compliance alerts and exception monitoring
• Guide implementation of pricing KPIs including margin waterfall, realized price, win-rate vs discount, price variance, and rebate effectiveness.
• Ensure explainability, governance, and auditability of AI-driven outputs within pricing workflows.

Delivery leadership

• Lead a Pricefx configuration workstream or small team (3-8 members).
• Own technical design decisions and manage complex configuration dependencies.
• Translate functional requirements into technical design and delivery backlog.
• Drive sprint planning, defect triage, SIT/UAT readiness, release governance, and hypercare support.
• Manage technical risks, performance issues, and integration dependencies.

Data & integration collaboration

• Work with integration/data teams on ERP/CRM/CPQ interfaces, ensuring correct mappings, validations, and reconciliation controls.
• Oversee data quality checks for price lists, customer/product hierarchies, agreements, and rebate datasets.
• Validate end-to-end data integrity across inbound and outbound interfaces.

Documentation & quality

• Produce and review configuration design documents, Groovy logic notes, deployment guides, and runbooks.
• Conduct code/configuration reviews and enforce secure engineering practices.
• Establish quality gates and review standards across the configuration team.

Level-specific Expectations Solution Architect

• Mentor Senior Associates and Associates; enforce coding standards and delivery discipline.
• Act as primary technical escalation point for configuration and integration challenges.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders across sales, finance, revenue management, and IT.
• Lead executive-level discussions, providing insights on Pricefx solutions, process redesign, and product enablement.
• Ensure strong relationships through transparent communication, deliveryexcellence, and proactiveissueofresolution.

Must Have

• 8-12 years of experience
• Hands-on Pricefx implementation experience with configuration ownership.
• Strong proficiency in Groovy scripting with demonstrated delivery of pricing logic in enterprise environments.
• Hands-on familiarity with at least one CI/CD platform (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Azure Pipelines, or CircleCI) and pipeline-as-code practices.
• Solid understanding of pricing concepts: price lists, discount governance, segmentation, approval workflows, rebates/incentives.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams (functional, data/integration, QA, release).
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving capability.
• Bachelor's degree minimum (Engineering/CS/IT preferred).

Good To Have

• Experience with pricing analytics and KPI frameworks (margin leakage, price realization, deal performance).
• Exposure to AI/ML concepts in commercial analytics (forecasting, anomaly detection, segmentation, elasticity).
• Familiarity with integration patterns, APIs, and data pipelines.
• Agile/Scrum delivery experience; tools such as Jira/Azure DevOps.